Cesium at SIGGRAPH 2025
With our work at the intersection of computer graphics and 3D geospatial, Cesium has a long history with SIGGRAPH. We’re excited to join again this year—the team will be in Vancouver, Canada, August 10-14.
Here's where you can find us:
Sunday, August 10
Accelerating AEC Workflows with 3D Geospatial Context in Runtime Engines
9:22-9:44 a.m. PDT
Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Ballroom C
Cory Barr will join Adam Liss, Philip Luhn, and David Willard of HNTB to discuss how HNTB uses Cesium to enhance AEC workflows and integrate 3D geospatial context.
Monday, August 11
glTF: Innovations in 3D Content Delivery and Use
Noon-1:30 p.m. PDT
Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 15
Get an in-depth look at how glTF is evolving to support richer, more realistic textures and new interactive applications, including gaming and metaverse use cases. Sean Lilley will deliver "Advancements in glTF for Geospatial," covering Gaussian splats, voxels, AEC rendering, and glX.
ACM SIGGRAPH Cartographic Visualization Birds of a Feather (Carto BOF)
Noon-1:30 p.m. PDT
Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 8
This session is organized by our friend Theresa-Marie Rhyne and explores how viewpoints and techniques from the computer graphics community can be effectively applied to cartographic and spatial datasets. Jake Adelgren will discuss 3D Tiles.
Tuesday, August 12
Metaverse Standards Forum Frontier Workshop: Town Hall: Gaussian Splats - Ready for Standardization
10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m. PDT
Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 8
Gaussian splats are a rapidly emerging method for the fast and efficient creation of photorealistic 3D visualizations. This Frontier Workshop will address the current technologies, formats, and use cases and investigate the potential for standardization to enable interoperability and sustainable growth. Jason Sobotka and Patrick Cozzi will participate.
Metaverse Standards Forum State of 3D Asset Interoperability using USD and glTF BOF
1:30-3 p.m. PDT
Vancouver Convention Centre, East Building, Room 15
This session covers updates on alignment of PBR materials, physics extensions, roundtripping between glTF and USD, interactivity, animation, FBX, and new geometric representations. Amanda Morgan, Adam Morris, and Patrick Cozzi will participate.
Wednesday, August 13
Hands-On Class: A No-Code Introduction to Creating Geospatial Worlds with 3D Tiles and Cesium
10-11:30 a.m. PDT
Vancouver Convention Centre, West Building, Exhibit Hall B
This class walks participants through how to create global-scale virtual worlds using real-world geospatial data that leverages Cesium and 3D Tiles on the web and in game engines. Cory Barr will lead this hands-on lab.
glTF & 3D Commerce: Unlocking New Possibilities for Real-Time 3D
10 a.m.-noon PDT
Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, British Ballroom
Sean Lilley will address glX and 3D Tiles.
6-9 p.m. PDT
Fairmont Waterfront Hotel, Waterfront Ballroom Foyer (lobby level)
Cesium is proud to be a sponsor of this event. Meet members and enjoy a cold drink and snacks after a long day of sessions. See live demos in action and make some new connections. Please RSVP if you plan to join us.
We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver!